Personal trainer of NFL quarterback Tom Brady, Alex Guerrero on the TB12 Method

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Natural health expert and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Alex Guerrero, personal trainer of NFL quarterback Tom Brady, about the program they developed, called the TB12 Method, and how it can help people achieve and maintain peak performance well into old age.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we have a special treat as we are joined by Alex Guerrero and you may not recognize him but he is the personal trainer for Tom Brady, who of course is well known for many by many
0:20.0	as many as many believed to be the best quarterback in the history of the NFL and he was named the
0:27.0	NFL's MVP for 2017 and he's also only one of two players to win five Super Bowls.
0:37.0	And so he's had enormous success and you know part it actually he's been honored with the four Super Bowl MVP awards and five
0:45.7	Super Bowl rings. So to achieve that level of success in a professional sport,
0:56.8	especially a contact sport like football, you've got to be doing something right and that something has a lot to do with the
1:01.3	conditioning and that's why we have Alex on today because he co-authored
1:05.7	a book with Tom Brady called TB 12 which really does a deep dive into his Tom's training methods that was really developed by Alex.
1:16.5	So welcome and thank you for joining us, Alex.
1:19.7	Thank you very much for having me.
1:21.3	It's such an honor.
1:22.3	Yeah, I'm so delighted we got to catch it.
1:24.7	As we're filming this, it's two days after the Super Bowl and the world was shocked that
1:30.9	New England lost to Philadelphia, you know that happens it happens that's
1:36.6	why we love sports right yeah yeah so let's get into your book you know one of the
1:42.2	primary focuses of it is this pliability training which seems to be
1:46.9	You know big big focus of the book and you and Tom develop this training as a targeted deep force muscle work that lengthens and softens muscles at the same time these muscles are rhythmically contracted and relaxed.
1:59.7	I'm wondering if you can expand more on this and how you develop this concept because it doesn't seem to be intuitive or actually commonly practice.
2:10.0	Yeah, so you know I've been practicing this for a little over 20 years now and, you know, when I first started, you know, was with the idea of just doing some, you know, some good deep tissue work and helping athletes, you know, recover from whatever their
2:27.1	injuries worth of time.
2:28.1	And I remember some of the clients that I was working on, I would, you know, work on them. They would, you know, feel better
2:34.6	and then they would go back out and they would do their training and then they would
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